Paid Versus Affiliate Listing Benefit Camparison Analysis

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Media outlets like National Geographic Traveler and the New York Times have recognized Rentalo.com as one of the best websites for travelers to find accommodations. Rentalo.com has helped thousands of lodging businesses increase their bookings for over 10 years. Rentalo has also helped 5.2 million travelers find a place to stay via their online portal.

The table below was created to assist potential clients with an affiliate listings (currently showing in rentalo directory) to understand the advantages of listing directly with Rentalo:

Listing Benefits

Paid Listing

Affiliate listing

Leads

Unlimited

No leads

Bookings

Unlimited
(no per-booking commissions)

Indirectly *

Directory (On-site) Exposure

Preferred ranking (show above affiliate listings)

No ranking **

Off-site Marketing ***

Yes

No

What’s a paid listing?
Any listing that pays a subscription fee directly to Rentalo.com.

What’s an affiliate listing?
Our affiliate listings include listings provided by our affiliates (via an XML API). Currently we have agreements with hotels.com (also known as ian) to complement our hotel inventory, and with Interhome.com to complement our vacation rental inventory. These listings show temporarely (as a courtesy to our travelers) until one or more subscriptions are paid in the same destination.

* Affiliate listings include a “Book Online” button/link that takes users to the affiliate site for booking processing. These bookings will be handled by each affiliate site. Listing owners pay per-booking commissions directly to affiliate sites. Again, this inventory will only show temporarely in destinations with no paid inventory.

** Rentalo will show affiliate inventory in destinations where no paid listing inventory is available.

*** About Our Off-site Marketing ... Our marketing efforts consist of a broad range of ongoing business developments and partnerships with key Intenet sites and other travel sites. According to Hitwise, Rentalo.com is among the top travel lodging directories receiving the highest market share of visitors searching accommodations online (download marketing studies here).

During more than 10 years, our professional staff has developed highly effective marketing campaigns and search engine optimization strategies to maximize exposure for our clients. These efforts include (but not limited to the following items):

- Automatic inclusion of paid listings in our newsletter publications, press releases, articles, and other off-net campains in TV, radio and newspaper publications.